Bengaluru: In a relief for senior Congress functionaries DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah, high court has quashed proceedings in a defamation case registered by BJP state secretary S Keshava Prasad.The case was registered in relation to the controversial “corruption rate card” advertisement issued on May 5, 2023, just before the assembly elections, against the then ruling BJP.Rahul Gandhi, then Congress president and presently leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, was arraigned as accused no. 4 in the case. In Feb this year, a coordinate bench quashed proceedings against him.
